"Fear of the end"

[Max1714]

"My name is Max. and soon i'm going to CTB. i'm not afraid of dying. but i'm scared of what comes after death. How do I overcome this fear?"

 

[Captive_Mind515]

Maybe read some books from famous atheist thinkers like Dawkins and Hitchens etc. That might calm your mind, that there is nothing to worry about concerning non existence. But probably won't work for everyone. I wish you a peaceful exit if that's what you choose.

 

[Gustav Hartmann]

If you don´t kill yourself but live untill you die "natural" you still don´t know what comes after dead. We all will know some day what comes after dead. Although the latest findings in brain research tell us that we will never know, because there is nobody and nothing left that could experience, remember or regret anything when we are dead. For me this is a very reassuring vision.

 

[OnMyLast Legs]

If you don´t kill yourself but live untill you die "natural" you still don´t know what comes after dead.

This is such an important insight about suicide, and it helps me get closer: you're gonna die anyway.

Maybe read some books from famous atheist thinkers like Dawkins and Hitchens etc. That might calm your mind, that there is nothing to worry about concerning non existence. But probably won't work for everyone. I wish you a peaceful exit if that's what you choose.

I need to set my mind right with more atheist content. For some reason I drifted into religion over my years of mental illness. I had feelings of guilt I wanted washed away. I had loser resentment and wanted the intellectual mainstream to be wrong. I did a lot of damage to myself when I jumped into religion, even though it only ever lasted months.

I still put on my scapular before I attempt. It's a Catholic thing ostensibly from a Marian apparition--the story is no one who dies wearing one goes to hell. So that tells you where my head is.

 

[DeathWish3301]

This might interest you in regards to your question.

If you don't feel like watching it, it's pretty much what @Gustav Hartmann said. Nobody knows for sure and you're going to die either way.